Dallas Cowboys: Mike Doocy of Fox 4 cancels his annual interview with Jerry Jones after he was told that the national anthem issues were not allowed

Mike Doocy of Fox 4 canceled his annual interview with Cowboys owner Jerry Jones Sunday night after being told that he could not ask questions about the controversy of the national anthem.

Doocy talked about the situation on his show. He said that Jones and his public relations team had told him at the last second that he could not ask any questions about the national anthem. Doocy also said that the NFL did not want Jones to talk about the national anthem.

Here is a transcript of Doocy's comments and the video of his broadcast. The video also includes clips of Doocy and Jones having a conversation without audio.

"It was the part of the show where Cowboys owner Jerry Jones was to join us. We had an interview at 9:30 tonight, that 's my 25th camp. Cowboys training that I covered and we had Jerry as a guest every Sunday opening camp over the years, I've always been delighted to have him. summer, I've always enjoyed having the kindness to join us, and be ready to ask any questions that come up [19659003] "In the end, tonight at the last second before we were preparing to record our interview, Jerry and his public relations team told us that the issue of the national anthem would be banned. The fact that we were told at the last minute and that the conditions were thus put in the interview, I did not feel comfortable doing it.

"I do not want to make a bigger deal than that, I enjoy Jerry's time through the years, he's always been incredibly accessible, and I've always Tried to be fair, I was just at the point where I was criticized for being too fair.I was just at the point where I was criticized for not to be hard enough with him at times … a lot of things to discuss with Jerry tonight, not just the national anthem, we would have had a lot of trouble with his football team, clearly.

"Somehow, I" I violate my own policy here I always felt better, even though there were conditions to be met to interview the reporter and get information that would be helpful to our viewers and to our audience.If I let you down in this regard, I'm sorry.I just could not accept the way this happened tonight. I hope we will have the opportunity to talk to Jerry in the future. I do not know how it will happen at this point, but there will apparently be no interview tonight. "

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" I am not sure I have done what I needed tonight. In all fairness to Jerry, his position is now that the NFL does not want him talking about the anthem either. It would have been nice to know that before a minute before the interview, you had to record. I've always enjoyed having the opportunity to talk to Jerry Jones, especially here in this camp. I've always enjoyed it ready to talk to us about anything, and I'm sorry it happened like this tonight. "